On tap

From
John Ewing

Mike Carrette’s generalising about “this side of the Atlantic”(Letters, 7 March, p 55)
may include the Isle of Wight but it doesn’t cover much else.

Single-lever mixer taps have been around in France, Germany and Italy for the
past twenty years at least. Possibly they haven’t reached Britain yet, or
possibly they have and he hasn’t noticed. Or maybe he has noticed, but wanted to
indulge in that good old British pastime of poking fun at a country of which one
is jealous.